RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps

theregister.co.uk

7 pointsdean3 comments

That'll do wonders for UI consistency.

It's moves like this that comes back and bites companies in the ass. Now they're gonna be stuck playing keep up with Android for the foreseeable future. And when you're playing catchup, you're probably not gonna have the time to be the leader.

So now "BlackBerry tablet apps" will be based on (I might have gotten a few of these wrong) Flash/Air, HTML, old BlackBerry OS, new BlackBerry OS, and [non-tablet] Android? And maybe Java? Interesting to see someone take the exact opposite route from Apple, who's obsessed with "owning" the app/development environment for their systems.

Sure, technically they've solved the problem of not having any apps... but I bet they've just shifted the problem to not having any good apps. That might be an even worse problem to have.

Sounds like a test/security nightmare, too. What happens when a BB game plays fine until the (very popular) Android tool in the background messes it all up?

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